ASVPM Meetup: Effective Retros Don’t Grow On Trees

Our next Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour is scheduled for February 9th, 2022.
Time: 12:00pm PDT / 2:00pm CST / 3:00 pm EDT
Topic: Effective Retros Don’t Grow On Trees
Our Guests Speakers are George Dinwiddie & Eric Rapin

An introduction to the meetup:
Can Retrospectives be more than just “what went well” and “what can we improve”?
Effective, impactful retrospectives don’t happen by accident. Deliberate design and skillful facilitation can lead participants down new though paths to incredible team improvements.
Come learn to cultivate better retrospectives.
Outline:

• Capturing Data from Experience
• Explore Observations and Interpretations
• Insights into Emotions as Data
• Takeaways
• Q & A

Takeaways:

• Learn an important aspect of effective retrospectives
• Facilitating differentiation between observation and interpretation
• Gain some new insights and ideas for retrospectives

The speakers
George Dinwiddie helps organizations develop software more effectively. He brings decades of development experience from electronic hardware and embedded firmware to business information technology. He helps organizations, managers, and teams solve the problems they face by providing consulting, coaching, mentoring and training at the organizational, process, team, interpersonal, and technical levels. Involved in the Agile community since 2000, he has helped organizations ranging from a 6-person startup to a Fortune 100 company and a billion-plus dollar federal program, either directly or in partnership with other companies. He is the author of Software Estimation without Guessing: Effective Planning in an Imperfect World (Pragmatic Bookshelf), Evolutionary Anatomy of Test Automation Code (LeanPub) and co-author of Patterns of Agile Journeys (LeanPub).

Eric Rapin is a consultant through his company Lucid Agile, Inc. and a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer®, leading efforts to adopt and improve organizations use of Scrum and other Agile methods. He has been working in software product development in various roles for over 30 years. Beginning his career as a software engineer and moving through various product development roles from dev to test to release and performance, Eric has covered the gamut in the software world, half of that time in various management roles. Eric discovered that many things he had started doing were articulated best by the Agile world and found a natural home there. Eric has worked at many leading companies such as Nortel, Apple, Sun Microsystems, Openwave, Adobe, Tableau, and Salesforce.

ASVPM Meetup Team